Just wondering what thoughts the MINA/NIO brain trust here might have
about a blog post I came upon a while back. The author (a pretty well
known hard-core developer who's worked for Google, as well as his own
startups) makes the case that NIO is actually significantly slower than
traditional blocking Java I/O when used in conjunction with NPTL threading.
Apparently, NPTL allows the traditional blocking I/O to scale beyond
just a few hundred or thousand threads, thereby making it a viable
option again for large-scale multi-threaded servers.
Curious if anyone's got any thoughts/experiences that either confirm or
refute what he's saying.
http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/02/kill-myth-please-nio-is-not-faster-than.html
Thanks,
DR
